Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03

corner, and walled in on the hillside at tho
back of where the house had stood. Rather
than be at the pains of following out another
they buried him in the very grave that h"
had caused to be dug to receive tn" body of
SilaS Croft
Who had murdered Frank Muller WAS and
remains mystery among them t" this day.
The knife was identified 10y the natives about
the farm rs belonging to the ll"ttcntot
Jantje. and liottcntot was seen running
from the place of the deed and hunted for
some way, but could ;ot hc caught or heard
of again. Therefore many of them are Of tho
opinion that he is the guilty man. Others
again, believes that the crime rests upon the
shoulders Of the villainouS one eyed kailir,
Hendrix his own servant, who had also myS-
terOuSly vanished. But as they have never
found either of them, and are not likely to,
tho point remains 4 moot one Nor indeed,
did they take any great pains to hunt for
them. Frank Muller was not n popular char
actcr, and the fact of Il man coming to myS-
teriOus end docs not produce any great Sensa
ton among Il rough people and in rough
times.
On the following day old Silas Croft Rcs
sic and John Mel also buried their dead in tho
little graveyard on the hillside. and there She
LES, some ten feet of earth only between her
and the man on whom she was the inStru-
ment of vengeance. But they never knew
that, or even guessed it, They never even
knew that she had been near Moolnntein on
that awful night. Nobody knew it except
.Jantj jc, and Jantie, haunted by the football Of
the pursuing Hocrs, was gone from the ken OF
the white man far into the wlls Of Central
Africa.
"John,' said tn" old man, when they he'd
filled in the grave. this is no country for
Englishmen. Let rs 80 hom" t" England.
John bowed his hral in assent. Fortunately
the means were not wanting. although they
Were practically ruined, for tine 81 .nO he had
paid to SlaS fora third interest in the farm
still lay, together with another ,Gesiu, in the
Standard bank at Newcastle. in Natal.
And 50 in due course they went.
And now what more Is there to tell: jess,
to those who real what has been written AS
it is meant to ,c read. was the soul OF it all,
and Jess is dead 1t is useless to set lifeleSs
thing upon its feet. rather let us strive to fol-
low the sOarings of the spirit. jess Is dead
and her story at an end.
Onr WOfl more. ttllpf SOllle ulIlltullN JONI
Mel, within three months of his arrival III
England got employment rs Il land agent to
Il large estate in Kutlandsilirc, which position
he fills to this day. with credit t" himself and
such advantage +" the property us can be cx-
pcctcd nowadays Also. he in due course be-
came tn" beloved husband Of sweet Bessie
Croft. and on the whole may hr considered Il
happy man. At times. however, Il sorrow nf
which his wife knows nothing Gets the better
of him, AMI lur IL while he is not himself.
He is moi Il man much given To sentiment
or speculation. Int sometimes when his days
work is done and he >trayS down to SliS gar
den gate and looks ont at III" dim and peace
full English landscape below. and then at Tn"
wide, star >tr"wn heavens above. he wonders
il the hour will ever come when he will once
more SEQ those dark and passionate" eyes and
hear that sweet remembered voice.
For he feels us hear Ia his lost love now that
she is dead ;S hc dill when she was Yet alive,
and from tim" to tim" hn seems to clearly
know that if there prove (" l"' an individual
future for lis struggling nnrtal> he will lind
jess waiting to greet Him at lis gates.
TIL: Esd.